- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1897
- Place of Birth
- Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
- Died
- November 3, 1980
Mikhail Kaufman
Mikhail Kaufman was a Soviet cinematographer and photographer. In the 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from the Russian Civil War, his brother director Dziga Vertov offered him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman. Kaufman directed photography for several films, including Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera. The film is built around meta-reference and is full of innovative visual effects: in it, Kaufman acts as a cameraman and is seen shooting the film while walking on high bridges, hanging off the side of a train, climbing a smokestack and crawling underground with miners – all in order to get the best shot. Mikhail Kaufman directed three films: Moscow (1927), In Spring (1929), and An Unprecedented Campaign (1931).
Filmography
movieAll Vertovs
2002 · (archive footage)
movieWorld Without a Game
1966 · Self
Planet of Secrets
moviePlanet of Secrets
1964 · Director, Director of Photography
Halo story
movieHalo story
1955 · Director
Earth in Space
movieEarth in Space
1945 · Director
Our Moscow
movieOur Moscow
1939 · Director, Camera Operator
A Great Victory
movieA Great Victory
1933 · Director
movieAn Unprecedented Campaign
1931 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
movieIn Spring
1929 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
movieMan with a Movie Camera
1929 · The Cameraman, Director of Photography
movieThe Eleventh Year
1928 · Director of Photography
movieMoscow
1927 · Director
A Day at Nursery
movieA Day at Nursery
1927 · Director
movieA Sixth Part of the World
1926 · Director of Photography, Assistant Director
movieKino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925 · Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
1925 · Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925 · Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
1924 · Director of Photography
movieKino Eye
1924 · Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
1924 · Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 17
1923 · Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 15
1923 · Title Designer
Give Us Air!
movieGive Us Air!
1923 · Director of Photography, Editor
movieKino-Pravda No. 8
1922
movieKino-Pravda No. 6
1922 · Director of Photography
Земля в пространстве (The Earth in Space)
movieЗемля в пространстве (The Earth in Space)
— · Director